Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once. Two soldiers were killed; six soldiers and a civilian were wounded in the scrimmage. The assassin, one Abelardo de Mendoza, member of the suppressed Apra revolutionary party, fell riddled with bullets and pierced by a lancer's spear. Chosen Provisional President to succeed Sanchez Cerro was cautious General Oscar Benavides, who has already served a term as Provisional President of Peru. Foreign correspondents wagered that one of his first moves will be to accept the League of Nations decision and end the Leticia...
Catholic newspapers featured the news, reported Convert Mann's cautious statement that "while I was in office, I never permitted anyone to make use of anti-Catholic propaganda. . . . I know of all the organized bigotry . . . in that campaign...
...Odysseus, who had been the cause of the abandonment of Philoctetes, to carry back to Troy the wounded hero and his bow. In the two figures of Neoptolemus and Odysseus are personified not only the antagonism between Aeolian and Ionian, not only the reciprocal blindness of bold youth and cautious middle-age, but the eternal conflict between idealism and opportunism...
...possible, the State Department obliged promptly with something which "did not sound as if it had been written by Mr. Stimson" according to officials of Japan's Foreign Office next day. Possibly written in part by Mr. Hull (though signed by Mr. Stimson) the State Department's cautious reply expressed "substantial accord" with the League's version of facts in Manchuria, "general accord'' with the conclusions of the Assembly as to what should be done and "general indorsement of the principles thus recommended...
...Haven Emerson of Manhattan, and strode out of the presidential mansion. He loaded a respirator on the rear end of his rebuilt Buick, and with his wife went peddling respirators in competition with Harvard's long, lean Professor Philip Drinker. Professor Drinker, through Warren E. Collins Inc., the cautious Boston manufacturers to whom he assigned patents on the respirator which has saved hundreds of chest paralyzed cases, sued rambunctious John Haven Emerson for patent infringement...